Both probably. I’ve lived in Utah and California (among other states) and I would characterize both as having the majority of their politicians unreasonably secure in their jobs and power. In Utah, most of the politicians were more at risk of losing your seat due to a primary challenge from someone further right than you than general election. In California they have at least fixed that a bit with open primaries, so at least the moderate people can make it to the general election. In both states, at least, the governors tend to be slightly more moderate than the rest of the politicians.

It is possibly true that the unreasonably secure don’t make up more than 50% of the votes, I’m not sure.

I feel like you guys must not follow politics.

Bipartisanship is pretty much dead everywhere. Majority rule is one party rule, even for very slim majorities. Nobody crosses the aisle anymore.

When we have a bicameral party split, or executive split with legislature, as we currently see federally on both counts, very little gets done.

LOL, the CA Democratic Party is by no means a monolith.

There are leftist and centrists, and some good bills die because the centrists + GOP have enough votes to kill them.